Regale 2, SlideShowPro migration and features

Nicolas Robel

Oct 07, 2014 03:34AM EDT

I'm really happy to watch Koken evolving. I'm an old SlideShowPro user which was a super nice image database engine. I'm trying to migrate from my SlideShowPro old website to Koken with Regale 2 theme but I have 2 questions though:- I've asked it already during the early phases of Koken, but I'm trying again: is it possible to migrate from SlideShowPro director to Koken database?- in Regale 2 theme, I've noticed this option: "Optional full screen "splash" slideshow for welcoming visitors with your favorites, featured content or featured albums."In SlideShowPro, I was able to featured a special set of random home image provided from different albums. In the SlideShowPro director admin, I was able to add a link to each image in order to provide the user a click to load the specific image album. Is it possible to do the same with Regale 2?

Todd Dominey
Koken Agent

Oct 08, 2014 05:49PM EDT

- I’ve asked it already during the early phases of Koken, but I’m trying again: is it possible to migrate from SlideShowPro director to Koken database?

Not currently possible. It would prove to be rather complicated because the systems are very different architecturally, but not impossible. We’re just focused on other things at the current time and will be looking at this when time permits.

- in Regale 2 theme, I’ve noticed this option: "Optional full screen “splash” slideshow for welcoming visitors with your favorites, featured content or featured albums."…

The “Splash” template in Regale 2 loads Featured Content that (when clicked) load their individual image pages, opens the image in the lightbox, or does nothing at all. Being able to load albums into this template or a similar splash-style template is something we’re considering for Regale 2. So to answer your question, no, right now there isn’t a way to link images in that splash slideshow to album pages.

That said, the Madison 2 theme does support this with two splash templates — one for featured content, the other featured albums. The featured albums template links to album pages. Not sure if that theme is of interest or not but I thought I’d let you know.